EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS OF OIL SPILL AT IJEGUN, LAGOS

IJEGUN OIL SPILL

So I went to Ijegun yesterday at the site of the oil spill with NEMA PRO, Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye and I took some pictures. the story will come later. While we were there, the IG TaskForce coordinator on Pipeline Vandalism, ACP Friday Ibadin came for assessment too. Check out the pictures

EXCLUSIVE: Inquest Begins on Associated Airline Crash

Four months after the Associated Airline Aircraft conveying about 20 persons to Akure, in Ondo State crashed minutes after taking off from the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos, an inquest has begun I can authoritatively report.

The inquest was initiated at the demands of Femi Falana Chambers to bring to light the cause of the crash which claimed the lives of about 16 of the passengers including the airline crew of the ill fated plane.

To kick start the sitting, 15 deponents were selected for the inquest at the Senior Magistrate Court 5, Abule Egba, in order to begin the long process of unraveling the true cause of the crash.

Some of the deponents include the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority  (NCAA),  Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Accident and Investigation Bureau (AIB), Channels Television, the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Oshodi/Isolo Local Government where the incident took place.

EXCLUSIVE: Fire Guts Power Generating Room of Ikeja Plaza

Pandemonium erupted yesterday when an early morning fire gutted the power generating room of the popular Ikeja Plaza, opposite Conoil Fuel Station, Ikeja, Lagos. When the explosion rocked the power generating room, it was gathered that pandemonium erupted as both workers and customers in the building at that time panicked as they struggled to flee to safety.

However, it was gathered that there was no loss of live, rather the destruction of the room the fire started from,  as the prompt response of the state fire service helped restrict the fire from spreading. Confirming, the incident, the spokesperson, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), South-west, Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, said the fire was contained with the same hour it erupted.

EXCLUSIVE: Uncompleted Building Caves in, Kills Five, Injures 10 in Lagos

The site of the collapse

Barely two weeks after another building collapsed at the Ebute Meta area of Lagos State, yet another one caved in yesterday at Ishaga, Surulere, killing five persons including a 13-year-old bread seller, and left 10 others with varying degrees of injuries.

This is just as the state building control agency said the agency had sealed the structure about three weeks ago because it was structurally deficient , adding that the owner probably broke the seal and continued construction. 

EXCLUSIVE: Lagos Commissioner for Special Duties Chase NEMA Personnel from Collapsed Building Site

WALE AHMED

Drama ensued today at the scene of the building collapse in Ishaga, Surulere, Lagos, which killed five people including a 13year old bread seller, when the commissioner for special duties Wale Ahmed, stormed the scene for an on-the-spot assessment and allegedly asked the personnel of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to leave the rescue operations for the primary responders which are the state Emergency Committee. 

This face- off is coming at the heels of yet another fracas between the Commander RRS,  CSP Akeem Odumosu and NEMA spokesperson, Farinloye, thereby giving the illusion that the agency are not welcome in emergency situations.

EXCLUSIVE: Two Weeks After Abuja Inferno, FCMB Office in Lagos Goes up in Flames

One of the several branches of the First City Monument Bank (FCMB) at no 49 Ademola Adetokunbo, Victoria Island, Lagos, yesterday went up in flames at about 7pm. Checks revealed that although concerted efforts by fire fighters stopped the spread of the fire, the flames had however affected the entire ground floor of the bank.

This is coming barely two weeks after another fire, which took the intervention of a team of Federal Fire Service from the El Rufai Fire service, the Federal Fire Service and the FCT Fire Service to put out, gutted the internal audit department of FCMB in Area Seven, Garki, Abuja.

EXCLUSIVE: RRS Commander Arrests NEMA Spokesperson

Pandemonium erupted at the scene of the building collapse at Ebute Meta area of Lagos on Thursday, when policemen attached to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) on the orders of their Commander, Akeem Odumosu, a Chief Superintendent of Police, arrested the Spokesperson, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), South-west, Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye.

It was gathered that the policemen had manhandled and then bundled Farinloye into one of the squad patrol vehicles, which  almost marred the rescue operation as other officials of the agency threatened to abandon the rescue operation.

Building Collapse Claims Baby, Couple, Four Others

Following the early morning collapse of yet another building at the Ebute Meta area of Lagos yesterday, the corpses of a toddler, a couple and four other residents of the ill fated three-storey building have so far been recovered while about seven residents were left with varying degrees of injuries.

Although as a press time, the actual figure of the deceased persons were yet to be ascertained, it was however gathered that the building located at no 29b Oloto Street, off Cemetery Road, Ebute Metta, had given the residents distress signs with cracks all over which were ignored.